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Principles
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Frankly, trying to keep up with the list of dos and don'ts in ancient Greece is enough to make us want to lie down with an US Weekly and a can of Diet Coke. Whether you're fighting your enemies, hosting some guests, herding some pigs, or burying your companions, there's a right way and wrong way to do it. But for the characters in the Odyssey, living up to their standards—and the standards of the gods—is a matter of life or painful, humiliating death.
Odysseus is obligated to avenge himself on the suitors in order to restore honor to his house.
In the Odyssey, women can only win honor by what they don't do, not by what they do.
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